THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Benjamin Franklin 7 William Keith. At Keith’s suggestion, Franklin returned to Boston to try to raise the necessary capital. H ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Achievement of Security and Fame Denham died, however, a few months after Fra ...

7 Benjamin Franklin 7 marriage lasted until Deborah’s death in 1774. They had a son, Franky, who died at age four, and a daughte ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 1751 the Academy of Philadelphia, from which grew the University of Pennsylva ...

7 Benjamin Franklin 7 phenomena. Franklin sent piecemeal reports of his ideas and experiments to Peter Collinson, his Quaker cor ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 simply from his many inventions but, more important, from his fundamental con ...

7 Benjamin Franklin 7 he did in France during the Revolution, he can quite plausibly be regarded as America’s greatest diplomat. ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 capitalistic spirit. Although Franklin did indeed become a wealthy tradesman ...

7 James Watt 7 Glasgow, he opened a shop in 1757 at the university and made mathematical instruments (e.g., quadrants, compasses ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 James Watt’s rotative steam engine with sun- and-planet gear, original drawin ...

7 James Watt 7 engine. In 1782, at the height of his inventive powers, he patented the double-acting engine, in which the piston ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 anxiety. A youthful sympathizer with the French Revolution, he had been criti ...

Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d ’Arlandes, ascending in a Montgolfi er balloon at the Château de ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Joseph’s wife’s skirts as they billowed in the kitchen from the heat of a cha ...

7 Alessandro Volta 7 electricity. He became professor of physics at the Royal School of Como in 1774 and discovered and isolated ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Joseph-Marie Jacquard (b. July 7, 1752, Lyon, France—d. Aug. 7, 1834, Oullins ...

7 Joseph-Marie Jacquard 7 Honour. The use of his loom spread to England in the 1820s and from there virtually worldwide. The Jac ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 In 1770 he went to New York City, entering the counting house of a merchant u ...

7 John Loudon McAdam 7 were adopted by the public authorities, and in 1827 he was appointed Surveyor General of Metropolitan Roa ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 he called heliography (sundrawing), with a camera. He recorded a view from hi ...